Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Sep 2, 2024 | dukechronicle.com | Doriane Lambelet Coleman

I’m writing to respond to a guest column The Chronicle published on August 26 titled“Duke University faculty must stop advocating for anti-gay and anti-transgender laws.” This title i” If you read it, you’ll see I’ve done exactly the opposite.ans-rights” makes clear, the column isn’t about generic “faculty” — it’s about me. I’m responding because it’s wrong about me and my work, and wrongheaded in its institutional message.

Aug 18, 2024 | almendron.com | Doriane Lambelet Coleman

After an ugly controversy erupted at the Paris Olympics, the critical question in elite women’s sport still needs an answer: Who should get to participate in the female category? At the Games, two formerly obscure boxers found themselves at the center of a global firestorm over whether genetic tests should bar them from the women’s division, even though the International Olympic Committee required a passport, not testing to participate.

Aug 6, 2024 | quillette.com | Kevin Mims |Joan Smith |Juan Villasmil |Doriane Lambelet Coleman

America has produced plenty of high-quality political novels. Few American mystery novelists have ever investigated a real-life murder, and few contemporary Western novelists have ever participated in a cattle drive. But plenty of political professionals—presidents, vice presidents, governors, senators, journalists, campaign managers, political appointees, government insiders—have written political novels, and many of them are very good.

Aug 3, 2024 | quillette.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Brian Stewart |Cathy Young

Hugo Chávez, the legendary socialist leader who preceded Nicolás Maduro, has long been a mythical figure. With his signature red beret and bombastic speeches, the man is to the West’s college Marxists what Justin Bieber once was to teenage girls. Some of this process has been organic—Chávez was indeed an icon, after all, and a person can be iconically awful.

Aug 3, 2024 | quillette.com | Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Ronald Dworkin |Jonathan Kay |Jaspreet Singh Boparai

With the return of the Olympics, it’s time for another predictable global uproar about XY athletes competing in the female category. This is now a century-old problem in elite sport that we’ve somehow not yet managed to solve in a uniform way. The Paris 2024 iteration of this debate is arguably the most explosive ever due to a confluence of at least three factors:This time around, the athletes are boxers not runners, which means they’re going to be punching their competitors.